Most of us will be watching this evening's debate on TV or on livestream . . . assuming the debate actually takes place. Good news, though. You don't have to watch it, since Mr. Vodkapundit will be live drunkblogging it. Here's his announcement from PJ Media:
Programming note: Come back to the PJ Media homepage tonight at about 8:45pm Eastern/5:45pm Pacific for the Official VodkaPundit Debate Drunkblog.
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Andrew J. Tobias reports at cleveland.com:
A group of voting-rights activists
has suffered a legal defeat
in their attempt to challenge Ohio's system of
verifying signatures
on absentee ballot applications.
A federal judge has ruled Ohio’s
system of verifying signatures on absentee ballot applications is not
burdensome enough to be struck down as illegal, rejecting arguments made by a
coalition of voting-rights groups that sued the state.
U.S. District Judge Michael Watson
wrote that while Ohio’s signature-matching requirements impose a
“moderate" burden on voters, they have other options to cast a ballot if
their vote is improperly rejected, including casting a provisional ballot on
Election Day. He agreed with Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose that the
state has a legitimate interest in promoting an orderly and secure election,
justifying that burden.
. . .
Watson’s ruling is technically just
an early loss for the voting-rights groups, which could continue to seek a trial
or appeal to a higher court. But it makes it significantly less likely their
case will succeed, especially given that the election is only 37 days away.
Read the full report here.
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Instapundit has the goods (click to embiggen if necessary):
DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: But the important thing to Alyssa Milano is that someone is paying attention to Alyssa Milano.
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At American Thinker, Pamela Geller comments on Allum Bokhari’s new book on Big Tech censorship. It’s worse than we thought. Ms. Geller begins:
Allum Bokhari, the senior
technology correspondent at Breitbart News, has performed an extraordinarily
valuable service by giving us his new book #Deleted:
Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.
. . .
In #Deleted, Allum Bokhari
tells the whole shocking story. For those who don’t realize the implications of
what is going on, he includes a Prologue entitled “The Typewriter That Talked
Back” that is as amusing as it is disturbing, and that makes abundantly clear
even to the most technically challenged among us what is really happening to
our foremost and most important freedom, right under our noses. Bokhari paints
a vivid picture of a 1968 in which a typewriter refuses to type, typing instead
its own message: “We regret to inform you that your last letter violated our
terms of service (Rule 32: Abusive & Offensive Content). We have suspended
access to your typewriter for 24 hours.” Newsstands remove from sale magazines
that third-party “fact-checkers” have deemed to be “fake news.” The Post Office
returns your mail because you told a joke in a letter that a censor found
offensive.
It’s all funny until you realize
that all this is exactly what email providers and big tech censors are doing to
Americans today, every day on the Internet. In the pre-Internet world of 1968,
it would have been preposterous. Americans would not have accepted it. But it
has all happened gradually, as we gave away our freedom by clicking our
agreement to dense and unreadable Terms of Service that turned over our right
to say what we believe to shadowy, anonymous guardians of acceptable opinion.
Most Americans today are only dimly aware, at best, that it is happening at
all, and those that are approach it with grim resignation. After all, what are
you going to do? Start your own Facebook?
Having been one of the early
targets of social media censorship on Facebook, YouTube et al, I have for many
years advocated
for anti-trust action against these bullying behemoths. Bokhari makes
an airtight case in #Deleted for why such action is necessary.
Read the full column here.
And it’s scary to think that even if millions of Facebook users
cancelled their accounts, nothing would change.
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The Trump - Biden debate is scheduled for next Tuesday, Sept. 29 in Cleveland. Will it actually take place? Meme via Patriot Post:
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Paula Bolyard at PJ Media reports on the Trump rally in Dayton and his introduction of Gov. Mike DeWine:
President Trump, as is customary at
these events, introduced Republican Gov. Mike DeWine at his rally in Dayton,
Ohio, on Monday—only to have the audience loudly boo the governor, who had
imposed a statewide masking order in July that has been wildly unpopular with
the president’s base.
“We’re joined today by a real good
friend of mine, somebody that’s been with me from the beginning and I’ve been
with him from the beginning, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine,” the president began.
“Where’s Mike?” he asked, to a spattering of applause. Trump looked around,
seemingly unable to spot DeWine in the crowd—and then the boos began. “What’s
that all about?” he quipped, looking a bit confused. “He’s opening up,” Trump
said, trying to defend the governor. “He’s a good man.”
The rest of the report is here. President Trump describes Gov. DeWine as “a
good man”? The Ohio Governor who keeps
moving the goalposts on mask mandates and onerous regulations that hamper opening up
businesses? Gov. DeWine seems to have
been enjoying his role as a petty tyrant.
Not good.
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Sunrise logo (yes, the outfit has its own logo) via Wikipedia
Michelle Malkin is now blogging at UNZ.com. In her column today, “Sunrise Movement: the Riotous Left's Pot-Banging Brats,” Ms. Malkin names names and puts the endless rioting and violence in context. She begins:
Wake up. The “community organizers”
of the left are in full wildebeest mode. Now is not the time for bending down,
rolling over or playing nice. From now until Election Day (and likely until the
end of the year), you can expect screaming banshees carrying identical,
preprinted signs to turn up in the middle of the night at the private homes of
elected politicians, Donald Trump campaign and administration officials, law
enforcement officers, judges and conservative leaders.
This is not conjecture. A
nationwide agitation force milked the dead body of George Floyd to create the
current anarchotyranny. Now, in keeping with her dying wish, the mob will use
the fresh corpse of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to try to bully Republicans into submission
over President Donald Trump’s rightful Supreme Court nomination. The ultimate
goal: obstruction and delegitimization of Trump’s reelection.
On cue, a bunch of demonstrators
all in matching yellow-and-black T-shirts from the Sunrise Movement turned out
in front of South
Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s house in Washington, D.C., this
weekend, banging pots, pans and buckets. The disrupters also blasted airhorns,
pointed strobe lights at the windows and crashed cymbals to punctuate their
collective fit over Ginsburg’s passing. Not a single one was arrested for
disturbing the peace.
One organizer shrieked at Graham
(who was not at home at the time): “You are an old white man desperately
clinging to power that you can’t hold onto much longer because we’re coming for
it. And in the meantime, you are not filling that Supreme Court seat. Not on
our watch. The people will decide who fills that seat. No justice, no sleep!”
Another threatened: “Anyone who is
seeing this can do the same thing to your representative, can do the same thing
learning about how to hold them accountable. Make sure they know if they do
some evil (expletives), they know there will be consequences for it.”
Shrieker Number One concluded: “We
will vote, we will organize, we will strike, and we will keep showing up in
your goddamned driveway at the crack of dawn to let you know that WE ARE WIDE
AWAKE!”
Who is the Sunrise Movement? It’s as organic as Spam and as genuine as AstroTurf. This full-time rent-a-mob is an adjunct of the Sierra Club (annual budget: $100 million; top donors: Michael Bloomberg, George Soros). The Sierra Club provided five-figure initial seed grants to Sunrise’s educational arm, as well as Beltway office space. Other original funders of Sunrise: The Rockefeller Foundation and Wallace Global Fund (which has also contributed to the George Soros-subsidized Tides Center, Color of Change cancel culture guerilla warriors, and far-left legal policy groups Alliance for Justice and the Brennan Center for Justice).
The Sunrise Movement’s co-founder, Evan Weber, is a former Occupy Wall Street organizer. Two others, Sara Blazevic and Varshini Prakash, are Green New Deal zealots and Bernie Sanders activists who teamed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to push the Democrats even further left. Prakash serves as an advisory board member of Climate Power 2020 along with Soros-funded Center for American Progress head John Podesta, former Obama administration environmental czar Carol Browner, former Obama administration science czar John Holdren, former Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry, former Obama administration EPA head Gina McCarthy, and former Obama administration U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.
Ms. Malkin's full column is here. And guess what? Here's from the Sunrise Movement's website:
Sunrise is a movement to stop
climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We currently
have 8 hubs in Ohio looking for volunteers including: Athens, Canton,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Kent, Oberlin and Youngstown. See website for
contact information for each hub.
It sounds so benign.
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