RADICAL, FAR-RIGHT LIBRARY JUST HAS BOOKS, NO DRAG QUEENS.
That’s from the Babylon Bee, which used to be a satiric Website, before morphing into America’s Newspaper of Record.
QED: Kaiser Permanente Ad Says ‘Too Bad’ to Those Who Say Drag Queen Story Hour Is ‘Too Much.’
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Her Boyfriend is a ‘Fictionkin’ Who Believes He’s an Anime Character and She Doesn’t Know What to Do.
NATURAL MAN-MADE DISASTER: Californians Stockpile Booze and Ice as PG&E Imposes Catastrophic Power Outages to Prevent Wildfires.
MAKE ESPN SORRY: Takin’ It to the Stadium: How to Get Right Back in China’s Face.
China has been exerting a little too much pressure on US companies. Let’s not let them get away with it: let’s see how many thousand “FREE HONG KONG” signs we can get at the LSU game ESPN will televise.
Related (From Ed): ESPN warns staff against disparaging Chinese communism.
AT AMAZON, Fall Deals in Grills and Outdoor Cooking.
“AT LAST — JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAS MET HIS MATCH” — Actually, his intellectual betters: Schoolgirls grill Justin Trudeau over blackface. ‘I didn’t know it back then, but I know it now. And I’m sorry I hurt people.’
Trudeau was 29 in the photo Time magazine published last month, “in what they delicately termed ‘brownface.’” (Cringe-worthy video of Trudeau’s interrogation at link.)
‘A LINE HAS TO BE DRAWN, AND I’M DRAWING IT:’ Former Blizzard team leader Mark Kern goes on righteous tear over Blizzard’s cowardly cave to China. “I take a huge risk by saying this. China monitors all social media and I know this means that we will probably never get an investment from China for my new MMO, and probably never get a license to operate there. But enough is enough. I stand with Hong Kong, and I oppose Blizzard’s obvious and laughably transparent fear of China. It’s time for Blizzard to grow the spine it used to have, and to do what’s right for gamers once again. Gamers, rise up.”
As Ben Domenech tweets, “This thread is a must-read, even if you are not a gamer.”
But I expect that, if nominated, Warren will “suddenly” become aware of all this, and break her promise.
FLASHBACK TO 2008 (From Ed): Obama tarnished by rejecting public funds for election fight. Candidate reneges on vow to stick to state-set limit.
MY NASHVILLE FRIENDS HATE THIS: How Nashville Became One Big Bachelorette Party.
APPLE PULLS TAIWANESE FLAG EMOJI FROM IPHONES IN HONG KONG.
As Cam Edwards tweets, “Guess we can officially retire this commercial:”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSnW-ygU5g
HILLARY ATTEMPTED TO BLOCK RONAN FARROW’S HARVEY WEINSTEIN INVESTIGATION:
Weinstein also attempted to leverage his long-term relationship with Hillary Clinton to pressure Farrow, he writes. In summer 2017, while Farrow was trying to lock down an interview with Clinton for his foreign policy book — while also still working on the Weinstein story — he received a call from Clinton’s publicist, Nick Merrill, who told him that the “big story” Farrow was working on was a “concern for us.” Then, in September 2017, according to an email cited in the book, Weinstein wrote to Deborah Turness, the ex-president of NBC News who now runs NBC News International, to propose a docuseries on Clinton. “Your Hillary doc series sounds absolutely stunning,” Turness responded.
Weinstein’s tentacles even stretched to Farrow’s own estranged father. Days before the Times story broke, Weinstein is said to have called Allen on a film set in Central Park, soliciting advice about how to deal with his son. Allen declined: “Jeez, I’m so sorry. Good luck.”
At Breitbart.com, John Nolte adds, “Please note that Merrill is Hillary’s longtime publicist. He works for her, and it seems unlikely he would do such a thing without her instructions. What’s more, as of now, Merrill has not denied the reporting…this Hillary Clinton bombshell could not come at a worse time for the two-time presidential loser, a time when she appears to be seriously flirting with the idea of a 2020 rematch with President Trump. She might want to remember that during their 2016 battle, Trump was not afraid to remind voters that Hillary played a leading role to personally destroy the women who claimed to have been raped, abused, molested, and mistreated by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.”
Flashback: “Hillary Clinton Gets More Big Bucks Support From Harvey Weinstein, JLo & Sarah Jessica Parker,” Hollywood house organ Deadline reported in June of 2016.
GRUNGE-ERA RELIC: Trump administration expected to announce exit from ‘Open Skies’ treaty.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Dem Donors Leak to Press: ‘He’s a Weak Front-Runner.’ “Anything can happen in a field this wide, and Biden seems remarkably hale for a man of his age and with his history of health problems. But right now his presidential campaign has the stink of death around it.”
TWO PHILADELPHIA 76ERS FANS BOOTED FROM GAME — IN PHILADELPHIA — OVER ‘FREE HONG KONG’ SIGNS.
“Un-freaking-believable,” Rod Dreher adds. “In Philadelphia, the birthplace of American freedom! This is the United States of America, not the Communist Party of China’s b*tch. Every single NBA fan should go to every single game wearing shirts or carrying signs defending Hong Kong. What a disgrace these craven American businessmen are.” Dreher’s post is headlined, “NBA, Stop Being Beijing’s Enforcers.”
Related: “If you’ve watched and read how the NBA is covered over the past few years, you know this is not how the league is covered. Unlike with most things now — football, politics, business, entertainment — the NBA is the sole remainder of fun, positive coverage. Hosts on ESPN, writers at Bleacher Report, The Ringer, Twitter users, and podcast hosts spend most of their time talking about how great the games are, the exciting players, the trades, the free agent movement, and hyping meaningless regular season games. The NBA conversation is absent of criticism even when it’s warranted. Not many have mentioned how anticlimactic the NBA Finals have been, now have they? With this latest development [Daryl Morey’s statement on Hong Kong, not the 76ers story above — Ed], these same outlets and personalities are now forced to discuss the league they love from a standpoint they have not been willing to see it from. It’s awkward, uncomfortable, and telling.”
Earlier: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
Speaking of which: “After a Marriott Rewards employee ‘liked’ a Jan. 9 tweet by the ‘Friends of Tibet’ group praising the questionnaire, Chinese authorities called in Marriott officials for questioning, shut down their Chinese website and mobile apps, and demanded an apology. The Jan. 11 apology from Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson parroted the language the Communist Party uses to describe groups that stand opposed to Chinese repression or advocate for Tibetan autonomy…For now, Marriott seems more concerned with how it is viewed in Beijing than in Washington. A Marriott spokeswoman said the company had no response to the concerns of lawmakers or human rights groups about its behavior.”
The employee was ultimately fired: Marriott Hotels fired an hourly employee for liking a tweet by a Tibetan separatist group.
UH-HUH: Twitter says users’ phone numbers provided for security ‘inadvertently’ used for ad purposes.
I’d rather lose access to my various online accounts than give out my phone number, so I don’t.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: STD rates in U.S. reached all-time high in 2018, CDC says. Many potential causes are discussed, but one is omitted.
SAD: Chicago is losing its black middle class. Can it get it back? “The prevailing attitude among black people in Chicago is that, to move up, you’ve got to move away.”
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