CONSIDERING ALL THE NEW GUN OWNERS, IT MIGHT BE A CASE OF TO QUOTE MORT THE WART BARRY OBAMA, BEING THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR: No, Gun Owners Aren’t Coming To Save You.
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July 23, 2020
July 22, 2020
GRANDMA-KILLER CUOMO SHOULD FACE CONSEQUENCES: Dr. Rand Paul calls for Cuomo to be impeached over coronavirus response.
More likely candidates are Govs. Beshear and Wolf, but all are deserving.
WELL, THAT’S HER M.O.: Is Kamala Harris Planting Evidence on Her VP Rivals? “Harris clearly wants the gig. Pretty much everyone does, given the likelihood that the elderly and cognitively declining Biden might not even serve a full term in office. Enough to be shopping oppo about the other black women under consideration? Obviously.”
I WAS TOLD THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER IS “ANTI-HATE:” This Black Lives Matter Activist Thought KNEELING on a White Baby’s Neck Was a Good Idea. “A shocking and deeply disturbing image posted to Facebook has led to the arrest of a Black Lives Matter activist. A black man, identified as BLM supporter Isaiah Jackson, took a picture of himself kneeling on the neck of a 2-year-old white child in diapers. The image shows another person holding the child’s arms back, and the child crying. The caption read, ‘Blm now mf.'”
Another in-kind contribution to Trump 2020. Thanks, BLM!
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s Home Vandalized, Hours Later She Votes To Protect Police Funding.
ANOTHER PUBLIC HEALTH TRIUMPH FOR TRUMP: U.S. infant mortality rate hits all-time low, CDC reports.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Schools Are Closing Not Because They Should, But Because They Can.
Related, seen on Facebook:
OPEN THREAD: Everyone I know, everywhere I go, people need some reason to believe.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: In Which Joe Biden Brags About Having Written the Patriot Act.
Related: Joe Biden in 2007: ‘It was the Biden Crime Bill that became the Clinton Crime Bill.’
As Steve asked last month, “Is Hidin’ Joe Biden the 1994 Crime Bill guy, or the #BLM and antifa guy?”
But he’s hiding no more! Or is he? Wait, how many people were watching Joe Biden’s live stream?
THE MEDIA AND THE VIRUS: American press coverage of Covid-19 was first dismissive, then alarmist—but always condescending.
It would once have seemed strange for a man in Tedros’s position to adopt the saccharine slogans of protest marches. Just so, it would once have seemed strange for a medical doctor to rate protecting people from racial offense a higher priority than saving lives. That it no longer seems strange is part of the story of the Covid-19 pandemic.
That story is one of compounding failures. During the early stages of the unfolding crisis, the WHO failed to take the coronavirus threat seriously, to question China’s official claims about its outbreak, and to coordinate a global response. In January, February, and early March, while the WHO was still declining to label the coronavirus a pandemic—partly because that label carries, according to Tedros, “significant risk in terms of amplifying unnecessary and unjustified fear and stigma”—the American media were also failing, systemically, to sound the alarm.
As it unfolded in the media, the story of the pandemic was initially that of a nonevent. On January 31, Vox ran a supposedly comprehensive “explainer” about the coronavirus. There was no need for Americans to wear protective face masks, Vox said, and “really no reason to worry.” On Twitter, Vox was still more blunt: “Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? No.” The hectoring tone and sham certitude are Vox specialties. But Vox wasn’t alone in dismissing the virus. USA Today, the Washington Post, Canada’s National Post, and many other outlets treated the Wuhan virus (as it was then known) less as a matter of objective concern than an instance of mass hysteria.
Their cardinal error, in almost every case, was to rely on the WHO, an organization at best egregiously mistaken and at worst politically compromised, carrying water for the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping.
Read the whole thing. As Glenn likes to say, “Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation against normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.”
SERIOUS BODILY HARM THRESHOLD, CROSSED: Federal officers in Portland may have been permanently blinded by lasers, officials say.
UPDATE: Reminder: Using Blinding Laser Weapons is Already a War Crime.
SO I JUST SAW AN AD FOR THE NBA: “TIME TO RETURN.” But it was layered with obnoxious preening social-justice wokery. I’m guessing it won’t call all that many fans back.
DIDN’T THE DEMOCRATS TRY THIS WHOLE “MASSIVE RESISTANCE” THING ONCE BEFORE? Philadelphia’s Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents.
LIFE IN DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: Occupy City Hall protesters were ‘s–tting and pissing’ in subway grates.
I remember when we were supposed to care about public health.
THEY’RE DOING IT WRONG: Mainstream media, and their vigilant stenographers keep using that phrase “secret police.” Nonetheless, I would like to send out congrats to New York Magazine for exposing the use of “unidentified” secret police. Except for the fact that they are not “unidentified”:
Either that or the Border Patrol are doing it wrong.
Another option is that New York Magazine has started hiring visually impaired people to be photo editors, in which case, extra wokeness points!
HMM: Interesting Case Study In The Volatility Of Ammunition Supply In America. “This means that for this one distributor located via Ammoseek.com, for one caliber, for one brand, 200,000 more pistol rounds are in the hands of ordinary Americans within about two weeks. Range ammo or PD, it makes no difference. That tells you something about what’s happening in America, more than you can learn from any MSM outlet even on a good day.”