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Open thread 5/12/2026 — 3 Comments

  1. Getting uglier and uglier (and it’s not over)…

    Funny ugly:
    ‘“You Just Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires to be a Capitalist Myth’—
    https://jonathanturley.org/2026/05/11/you-just-cant-earn-a-billion-dollars-aoc-declares-billionaires-to-be-a-capitalist-myth/

    Dangerous ugly:
    ‘The Four Horsemen of the New Antisemitism’—
    https://victorhanson.com/the-four-horsemen-of-the-new-antisemitism/
    H/T Powerline blog (for both).

  2. Funny ugly:
    ‘“You Just Can’t Earn a Billion Dollars”: AOC Declares Billionaires to be a Capitalist

    So, let’s try baseball:

    “Shohei Ohtani signed a historic 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers in December 2023, the largest in professional sports history.”

    “Shohei Ohtani is projected to earn a record-shattering $125 million in endorsements for the 2026 season.”

    Close enough to $1 Billion whether that is deferred income or not. Math is tough for the little envious Communist full of resentment at other people’s achievements.

    Did he “earn” this money? Yup.

    In fact as Shohei is Asian, then AOC is just another KKK racist in the Democrat Party.

  3. Here’s an editorial headline you won’t read anywhere else:

    Trump Heads to Beijing With a Strong Hand
    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-heads-to-beijing-with-a-strong-hand-a5a3b131

    By Thomas J. Duesterberg. I’m not familiar with him, but this is very good. Read the whole thing as they say.

    China’s economy is weakening and dependent on Western economies to achieve its modest goals for growth. Demographic decline, high youth and rural unemployment, the near-bankruptcy of at least one-third of local governments, unsustainable debt levels, a Third World social-welfare system, and chronically poor or negative returns on capital investment are all reasons that China this year has the slowest official growth outlook in decades. Compounding the problem is the country’s dependence on foreign oil and gas, food and minerals.

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