People have published notes and made comments about the Thiel speech for the last three days, but the video is now available, and it's required viewing.

Amy will fine every commenter who doesn't set aside a half-hour or forty minutes to watch this video before August 1st. The fine is forty dollars. Non-refundable. She can be a real hardass about this, and we all remember what happened last time. So go ahead and listen to the words of my favorite Trump voter.

Here are notes. We don't yet have a transcript. We might have one by the weekend, but you shouldn't risk it unless you're serious... You should really just go watch the YouTube.

More on Google from Quillette.

From the notes on Thiel's address. Emphasis mine.

China has been stealing our intellectual property and conducting cyber-warfare, and China is an unusually dirty country dirtying up the planet. Trump’s 25% tariffs on China should be reframed as a carbon tax.

A bunch of green heads just exploded.

Change.

Ford tells The Mancow Show on WLS-AM 890 that he is encouraging his residents to arm themselves against the violence.

“I think about it all the time,” Ford said of the shootings that plague his community. “That’s why I’m working with a concealed carry instructor and we’re going to go through the neighborhood and we’re going to encourage people to get their concealed carry license because it makes no sense for people not to have the protections that they need.”

http://www.wlsam.com/2019/07/15/chicago-lawmaker-encouraging-concealed-carry/

Trinity.

https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/trinity-at-74-america-becomes-the-most-powerful-nation-in-history/

Dead or alive, you're coming with me.

https://youtu.be/dKjCWfuvYxQ

More on China, this time, their ban on importing plastics to be recycled.

"China's ban may actually reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans," he told NPR's Planet Money podcast. "China was not very careful about what got into their oceans for a long period of time, and if some of the plastic piles were just too corrupted they could do whatever they wanted with it."

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/07/15/why_its_probably_better_for_the_planet_to_throw_plastic_in_the_trash.html

Will she be called upon to renounce him?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/7/david-duke-praises-rep-ilhan-omar/

Fanny and Rembertus tell Jesus to buzz off, they aren't giving Caesar a damned cent.

Because GAWWWWWWWWD.

See, the way autism works is, if your parents masturbated or committed adultery, then they're like animals, so you'll be born autistic, because autistic people are like animals.

So sayeth Father Dominic, and he charges $400 a seat, so obviously he knows what he's talking about.

https://babalublog.com/2019/07/17/meme-of-the-day-when-the-waiter-is-taking-too-long-to-bring-you-the-cuban-bread/

Gore-bal Warming, David Attenborough edition.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/336252/

This will play well in Pflugerville.

The University of Texas at Austin will raise the threshold for household income that will afford a student free tuition from $30,000 to $65,000.

School spokesman J.B. Bird told Campus Reform that “in keeping with state law, students are not asked about their immigration status."

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13446

Education follies. I'm going to go with "it's a language issue". But they are paying the property taxes.

“My understanding is they thought they were buying an operating college, but they are not because it is not open and they, as owners, have not been accredited, which is an involved process,” Donchess said during a recent town hall meeting in Ward 2. “All they bought was real estate, not an operating college. It is said that they did not quite understand that.”

https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/new-owner-of-former-daniel-webster-college-site-thought-he/article_261f8fcc-5698-55ed-b8fd-3917ffe9796b.html

I admire this countermanding sentiment, because I tire of clucking, to wit:

> A bunch of green heads
> just exploded.

Trump voters, demanding nothing more of their public servants than pathetic expressions of "Nyah nyah," will be the least-motive force in American political history— Debt is exploding; technocratic government and the biggest of businesses intrude and expand with metastatic fury; and needy "immigrants" storm our nation at every border, port and air terminal.

…Yet Trump voters masturbate with glee: Ooohh, sick burnnnnn! He *totally* owned the libs!!