Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. Sit down for a cup o’ coffee with this 21st Century Weekend Edition (online).
#1 – ‘There Will Be Blood’: Elon Is Preparing for Battle With ‘Hardcore’ Lawyers — by Nick Arama
Musk also called the “friend” whose story the Business Insider relied on “a far left activist/actress in LA with a major political axe to grind.”
However, Musk is not stupid and he must figure that more is on the way because it sounds like he’s preparing for a throwdown. He’s now announced he’s putting together a hardcore litigation team and he tweeted, asking for applicants.
#2 – Durham Drops Another Bombshell, Reveals FBI Lied About Hillary Clinton – Supplied Disinformation — by Bonchie
The FBI may have deliberately misrepresented the facts by using false DOJ referrals to create the impression that the Alfa Bank came from an unknown third party. It was actually Hillary Clinton. The FBI knew who gave it the information, as well as his connections to Clinton’s campaign.
I won’t pretend to be an expert on this. It is possible for investigators to be kept secret in certain situations in order not to reveal the identity of the source. But, given the source of the information, was this a justified hold?
#3 – EXCLUSIVE: State Farm Exec Apologizes to Angry Agents, Says ‘We Made a Mistake With Our Involvement’ With GenderCool — by Jennifer Van Laar
Numerous agents mentioned that State Farm’s 100th anniversary convention is about to take place in Las Vegas, and they expect that executives will be bombarded with questions, complaints, and demands that agents have a say in decisions about the company’s philanthropic efforts, since agents are the first line of contact for customers and these philanthropic efforts are ostensibly undertaken in the agents’ names.
While we still don’t know exactly who greenlit this partnership, how far up the corporate ladder they are, and if they were given complete information about what the partnership entailed, according to a voice message sent to agents Tuesday morning the partnership was not reviewed at the highest levels before it kicked off.
#4 – ‘Jurassic Park’ Gets Canceled — by Bonchie
I’ll admit to being completely confused by this. It is a patriarchy for a younger woman to earn millions to star in a movie with an older actor. Is the suggestion here that she shouldn’t have ever been given the role? This seems silly and self-destructive. Of course, she’s only saying this 29 years later, after she’s been made fabulously wealthy by the long-running popularity of “Jurassic Park.”
You are not casting to find out who the actors/actress are in real life. This debate is not only about older women, but also how often they are cast as younger women. Does that seem outlandish? As for Dern, her character was a PhD-level researcher in her field. Both in terms of her experience as well as her physical appearance, she was a woman in her early 30s. Even still, in the film itself, Dern wasn’t even in a relationship with Neill’s character.
#5 – 5th Circuit Slaps Down Joe Biden’s SEC, Liberals Promptly Lose Their Minds — by Bonchie
For context, a professor at Georgetown University is quote-tweeting a supposed legal expert, decrying how radical it is that a court told an administrative agency they can’t violate the rights of individual citizens. You almost have to admire the guy’s word salad of describing it as violating the “people’s ability to collectively act to protect their economic security.” It would have been easier for him to say he supports an all-powerful, completely unconstitutional administrative state–because that’s exactly what he supports.
And that’s the bigger story here. The Democrat Party doesn’t care one iota for individual rights. The Democrat Party views government as an instrument to be used however they like. If that means violating the Fourth and Seventh Amendments, then they are perfectly fine with that–as long as it serves their end goal. That’s not just true at the SEC. It’s true in every single bloated, inefficient government bureaucracy.
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