Headline at PJ Media:
Who Could Blame It: Biden 'Build Back Better' Sign
Commits Suicide
During Rare Campaign Appearance
Almost buried amidst all the post-debate commentary was one
short video of Joe Biden making a speech earlier today in Cleveland. As if to serve as a metaphor, his “Build Back
Better” sign fell off the lectern. The big drop happens at :27 or so. (The
video is not coming up in any searches, so click here and scroll down.
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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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