VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Wall Street Writes Off Biden’s Chances of Enacting His Crushing Tax Hikes.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: If he actually wins, would Joe Biden’s well-known “ability to f*** things up” be our country’s saving grace for four years?

Answer: Sigh, maybe, yes.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Barack Obama: Snake, charmer
• Twitter: Judge — and jury, and executioner — of political debate in this country
• Rick Wilson: Sad little lonely cowardly bully

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

ANOTHER ONE: Dem Gov. John Bel Edwards caught socializing at a Louisiana country club without a mask in mid-November.

DENIERS: State Mandates Ignore Science On Why Wearing Masks While Exercising Can Do More Harm Than Good.

COLLUSION: Stanford likely helped develop facial recognition tech now used against ethnic minorities in China.

DECOUPLING: U.S House Passes China Delisting Bill. “The U.S House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that threatens to delist Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding and JD.com from U.S. exchanges unless U.S. regulators are able to inspect their financial audits within three years.”

IF IT WERE OTHER STUDENT GROUPS THEY’D BE CALLING IN THE FBI: Pro-life club faces vandalisms on campus, administration remains silent.

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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Idiocy of Republicans Boycotting GA Runoffs Has to Stop. “When I first read that Republicans in Georgia were SERIOUSLY FREAKING THINKING of not voting in the Senate runoff elections I thought I might need a field sobriety test, a concussion examination, or both. There was no way that otherwise sensible people could be participating in a ‘cut off the nose to spite the face’ mass delusion, was there?”

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

● Shot: What Now for Trump’s Border Wall?

● Chaser: Biden’s immigration radicalism.

NEWS FROM PUERTO RICO: “But, the big, big news is Puerto Rico. In Puerto Rico, there was a shift in control in the territorial Senate and House. Both flipped from NPP to PDP. My understanding is that PDP wants continued commonwealth status—and not statehood. This is what is called news. The territorial governor has been in office since 2019, and she is affiliated with NPP—a party which supports statehood. Thus, political control of the island territory is divided. If that is not confusing enough, historically, NPP loosely affiliates with the ‘mainland’ Republican Party, and the PDP loosely affiliates with the ‘mainland’ Democrat Party.”

HOW’M I RIDIN’? I’M RIDIN’ HIGH: Space balloon company raises funds, will conduct first test flight next year. “No ticket price has been revealed, but it likely will be on the order of $125,000.”

PAUL BEDARD: Nevada ‘fraud’: 1,500 ‘dead’ voters, 42,248 voted ‘multiple times,’ RV camps as ‘homes.’

Related: Sen. Mike Braun: Half the country wants Trump fraud claims investigated, and he rips media’s dismissal.

If Trump’s claims are so crazy, you’d think the Democrats and media — but I repeat myself — would welcome a detailed, trustworthy audit.

BARACK TO THE FUTURE! Biden admin looks like one more try at liberal technocratic government.

Technocracy, climate cultism & dumb wars

Are you ready for the Great Reset? It’s the Great Leap Forward of 21st-century technocracy. It’s time, we are told by the likes of Davos guru Klaus Schwab, to reboot our passé, 18th-century ideas about rights, democracy and constitutions — and surrender to the smooth rule of the ­experts and the climate cultists, not forgetting, of course, their financial advisers.

The reality, however, is less Great Reset than Great Preset. What elites who talk this way really want is to turn the clock back to circa 2014, before Donald Trump’s ascent, before Brexit, before populists swept to power across the West on a wave of discontent with the liberal-technocratic order.

Look at who Joe Biden, the great hope of resetters, wants to drive the economic recovery. Janet Yellen, who was President Barack Obama’s choice at the Federal Reserve, for Treasury. Neera Tanden, the corporatist Clinton sidekick, for the Office of Management and Budget. Adewale Adeyemo, president of the Obama Foundation, as Yellen’s deputy.

It’s Obama Time all over again in defense and diplomacy too.

This is an ideology running on fumes, led by a sclerotic leader who has been a loyal Democrat foot-soldier for nearly half-century. However, as Dominic Green predicts, there is one happy ending: “In 2010, the voters responded to Obama’s first two years by flipping the House to the Republicans. They will do the same in 2022.”

Don’t get cocky, to coin an Instaphrase.

ONE LAST COLUMN FROM THE LATE, GREAT WALTER WILLIAMS: The Tragedy of Black Education Is New.

Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore’s school system. What it found was an utter disgrace.

In 19 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were proficient in math.

In 13 of Baltimore’s high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math.

In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading.

Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma—a fraudulent high school diploma.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District scored the lowest in the nation compared to 26 other urban districts for reading and mathematics at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels.

A recent video captures some of this miseducation in Milwaukee high schools: In two city high schools, only one student tested proficient in math and none are proficient in English.

Yet, the schools spent a full week learning about “systemic racism” and “Black Lives Matter activism.”

I know I don’t have to remind you to read the whole thing.

CHINESE ASSETS: Biden-Linked Firm WestExec Scrubs China Work From Website.

NEXT TIME, RUN A SIMILAR LOOP STARRING VARIOUS JOURNALISTS: Kayleigh McEnany Opens Press Conference With Video Loop Of Democrats Breaking Their Own Lockdown Rules.

WELL DONE, EVERYONE: Left-Wing PAC Crowdfunds Georgia Billboards to Divide Republicans.

BLUE ON BLUE: Squad blasts Obama for ‘critique’ on ‘defund the police’ slogan. I suspect that Barack “the police acted stupidly” Obama sympathizes, but he also knows this is political poison.

JONATHAN KAY: Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction.

“You have continued to stand as an individual that seems to turn a blind eye to the stuff that’s going on, as a black woman that is in the [college] administration,” said the first-year Haverford College student. “I came to this institution”—and here she pauses for a moment, apparently fighting back tears—“I expected you, of any of us, to stand up and be the icon for black women on this campus… So, I’m not trying to hear anything that you have to say regarding that, due to the fact that you haven’t stood up for us—you never have, and I doubt that you ever will.”

The school-wide November 5th Zoom call, a recording of which has been preserved, was hosted by Wendy Raymond, Haverford’s president. At the time, the elite Pennsylvania liberal arts college was a week into a student strike being staged, according to organizers, to protest “anti-blackness” and the “erasure of marginalized voices.” During the two-hour-and-nine-minute discussion, viewed in real time by many of the school’s 1,350 students, Raymond presented herself as solemnly apologetic for a litany of offenses. She also effusively praised and thanked the striking students for educating her about their pain, while “recognizing that I will never understand what it means to be a person of color or be black or indigenous in the United States. I am a white woman with considerable unearned privilege.”

Not only did Raymond announce that she would be acceding to many of the students’ previously listed demands, she also reacted positively to the new requests that students put forward during the call. “All of the recommendations you’ve made here sound spot on and are excellent,” she said. “We can do those—and go beyond them.”

The ignorant and intolerant are effectively in charge.

This is a longer — and quite brutal — piece.

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: Residents in city of Los Angeles ‘ordered to remain in their homes’ amid COVID-19 surge.

Flashback: Lakers title celebrations likely added to California’s Covid-19 spike, agency says.

Also possibly contributing: “Protesters gathered outside Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s home Wednesday for the ninth consecutive day in an attempt to persuade President-elect Joe Biden not to appoint Garcetti to his cabinet. Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles and Ground Game LA have vowed to conduct a demonstration every day until Biden commits to not appointing Garcetti to the cabinet. They are critical of Garcetti’s handling of homelessness, public transportation and other issues.”

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: What Really Happened to Donald Trump in the 2020 Election.

WHO SHOULD BIDEN APPOINT AS SECRETARY OF EDUCATION?:  Yesterday I noted that Biden promised voters that he would appoint a teacher, but that a piece in the New York Daily News is urging him to break that promise.  It suggests instead that he appoint the current chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Here’s another reason such an appointment might be considered controversial.