Wednesday Potpourri

First, an important observation from Erielle Azerrad:

Good reminder the Biden Administration hasn’t issued a SINGLE indictment against any of the Hamasniks on campuses or against a single charity funneling money to Hamas. Simply amazing anyone argues this administration takes antisemitism or terrorism, for that matter, seriously.

Second, Kamala Harris was hunkering down doing debate prep in Pittsburgh. She chose to take a brief break and walk over to a spice store, called Penzey’s Spices, where she received a very warm welcome.

It was predictable, since the store is run by a leftist fanatic, someone named Bill Penzey, who put this on his website:

Going forward we would still be glad to have you as customers, but we’re done pretending the Republican Party’s embrace of cruelty, racism, Covid lies, climate change denial, and threats to democracy are anything other than the risks they legitimately are.

Evidently, Harris was not risking a lukewarm welcome. She did not stop at a fast food restaurant where people might not have been quite as friendly.

But then, the doltish Harris chose the occasion to call for an end to political divisiveness. That’s right, folks. Standing in a store that manifests political divisiveness she declared that we should all come together.

Perhaps she did not know where she was. Perhaps her advance team had failed to do its work.

The result, Kamala looked like a fool.

Third, it’s not just Disney that is going broke for going woke. Sony, of all people, created a woke game, called Concord. Tyler Durden reports on Zero Hedge on the calamities that ensued:

It's hard to say if Sony's latest gaming disaster, Concord, was partially paid for with ESG cash, but the content sure feels like it was drafted up by a bunch of blue-haired weirdos in the bathroom of a progressive think-tank.

Concord, a relatively generic competitive shooter with some obviously "borrowed" plot aesthetics from Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy' , has all the indicators of a DEI game.  This includes pie-chart diversity, no straight white males, lots of minority women, lots of fat positivity, at least one trans-woman and plenty of gender fluid pronouns.  Sony spent at least eight years and $200 million (including marketing) on Concord with high expectations for the AAA title, only to discover no one wants to play as a clinically obese woman or a transgender.  

The result, Sony canceled Concord:

The lack of player interest has led Sony to treat the project as a total loss and the company is scrapping the entire game - Pulling it offline after only two weeks and giving customers full refunds.  In other words, Sony just took a $200 million dollar loss on a game that they are throwing down the memory hole, possibly forever. 

Fourth, finally, some good news on the transmania front. The girls field hockey team at a Massachusetts school is boycotting a match, because the other team has male players.

Libs of TikTok has the story on Twitter:

Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District in Massachusetts just announced that their girls' field hockey team is refusing to compete in their next game because the opposing girl’s team has male players.

Fifth, William Galston writes in the Wall Street Journal that Tucker Carlson crossed a line when he offered up the anti-Semitic, Holocaust denying musings of one Darryl Cooper. We have expressed similar judgments ourselves.

Now, Tucker is becoming a problem for Donald Trump.

As for whether Carlson accepts the Cooper Holocaust denial as true or valid or worth considering, Galston says, addressing JD Vance:

Did your staff happen to tell you that while Mr. Carlson acknowledged that people could take issue with Mr. Cooper’s factual claims, he went on to say that “they’re certainly consistent with what I think I know to be true”? It is hard to discern any daylight between Mr. Carlson and his guest.

Galston says that the ball is now in Trump’s court.

This brings us back to Donald, the only person left on the right who can put an end to this madness. He can denounce Mr. Carlson. He can tell his running mate and his son not to appear on Mr. Carlson’s tour. By reaffirming the truth about the Holocaust and World War II, he can draw a bright line between what’s acceptable and what isn’t. If he doesn’t do this, he will prove that he isn’t strong enough to stand up to the blatant antisemitism in his own party.

Sixth, most commentators say that Kamala Harris did better at last night’s presidential debate. Of course, she received considerable assistance from the ABC moderators, who fact checked Trump, but not Harris.

Whereas the moderator claimed that violent crime is down, the truth is, localities and the federal government stopped reporting violent crime. 

Makes you wish that CNN was moderating.

How much this moves the electorate is anyone’s guess now.

Speaking of CNN, a random voter on that network said this:

My life was better when Trump was in office. The economy was better. Inflation was lower. Things were better overall. And now, with Kamala's administration, things haven't been so fantastic. She's saying she can fix the problems that her administration has caused, but I don't know if I can afford to take that risk.

And then, hedge fund tycoon Bill Ackman offers this comment on Twitter:

The world is in flames because of the weak leadership and failed foreign policy of the Biden-@KamalaHarris administration. Incredible that @KamalaHarris calls @realDonaldTrump weak. 

Compare the effective deterrence of Trump’s first term’s foreign policy with no new wars with Biden’s infamous ‘Don’t.’ 

‘Don’t’ has only induced our enemies to attack our allies, and that is prima facie evidence of the failure of Biden-Harris’s foreign policy. And that’s before we discuss the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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