Did You Hear About This?
Jackass climate activists at it again!
On a square-foot basis, the Rijksmuseum could be my favorite museum in the world, with a collection of all the greatest works of the greatest Dutch artists, from Rembrandt to Van Gogh. Thus, I was disappointed to hear that Extinction Rebellion, the naïve activist group whose tactics are as obnoxious as their ideas are nonsensical, “cyber-attacked” the museum last month. They did it by booking out a weekend exhibition online and then cancelling their reservations at the last minute. As a result, the museum, normally packed on a holiday weekend with about 8,000 people, was practically empty.
Why did they do it? Because the museum banks with ING, a global financial institution that, like any large company, respects its fiduciary duties to its shareholders.
The “ineffectuals” ineffectually protesting at the SOTU Address
I didn’t watch Trump’s State of the Union Address, but I caught some clips on social media and read a few online reviews, including this from John Leake writing in Focal Points:
“A friend just sent me the image above…. I was instantly reminded of the scene in the film Animal House when the endearing but hapless Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman attend a party at the snobby and sadistic Omega House and are promptly shuffled to a side room and introduced to Muhammed, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton.
“Back when Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney wrote the script in 1978, we all understood that Douglas Neidermeyer and Greg Marmalard were terrible guys and that Larry Kroger, Kent Dorfman, Muhammed, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton were something like ‘the meek who shall inherit the Earth.’ However, at some point over the last 20 years, the pendulum of the American Zeitgeist swung to the other extreme, resulting in silly, ineffectual people like Representative Nydia Velázquez being elected to high office.
“Now, in Trump’s second term, the ineffectual are losing the support structure that has propped them up in power. Being ineffectual, they are flailing about looking for some means of resisting their acceleration towards irrelevance and obscurity. It seems that holding up lollipop-shaped protest signs during the President’s address is the best they can do.”
Tapper’s surprise: Yes, Biden was brain dead!
I don’t know whether to admire him for his balls or mock him for his brazen sycophantism, but CNN’s Jake Tapper deserves some kind of award for writing and promoting a book on Biden’s mental decline, after having fiercely denied that the old man was unplugged if not batshit crazy from 2020 to 2024. As someone (sorry, I didn’t make a note of the name) said, Tapper is both the person who should not have written the book and the person who should have, because “his dishonesty and hypocrisy exactly encapsulate modern journalism.” Click here
Speaking of hypocrisy…
I literally slapped the side of my head the other day reading Jeff Bezos’s statement last week about remaking the image of The Washington Post. He said, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Click here.
Newsy cartoon of the month
