Archive for 2020
June 3, 2020
The MSM’s elevation and continued classification of any story as Nationally Newsworthy rather than only of local interest is in direct correlation to said story’s current ability to affirm any current Democrat/Liberal/Media meme/talking point, particularly on the subject of race or sexuality.
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SEN. TOM COTTON: Huawei 5G is like Soviets building west’s submarines.
Deploying Huawei, the politician continued, “would be as if we had relied on adversarial nations in the cold war to build our submarines, or to build our tanks. It’s just not something that we would have ever considered.”
The senator was speaking before a defence subcommittee inquiring into UK proposals to allow Huawei to deploy up to 35% of 5G equipment, which has come under heavy criticism from the White House and the Conservative right.
Ten days ago, an increasingly nervous Downing Street said it was reviewing a plan put forward by Boris Johnson as recently as January and indicated that it could be prepared to eliminate Huawei involvement entirely by 2023.
Cotton said that he would welcome the UK removing Huawei “even earlier” and argued that the Chinese company’s kit could be targeted by People’s Liberation Army hackers to track the movement of key parts of US F35 fighter aircraft if it were compromised.
The senator has recently submitted an amendment to the US 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that would block the deployment of US air force F35s in countries where Huawei equipment is used, and told the committee “we believe our airmen could be at risk”.
Huawei is a communist front corporation built atop the bones of Nortel, after picking them clean.
DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: Worse than war: My night besieged by looters and thugs in NYC.
Related: Cuomo and de Blasio are refusing to face what rioting means for New York. “The thing with anarchists, with rioters and with looters is that if you give them an inch, they’ll take your city’s soul. And it has been the policy of New York City for several nights now to give them as many inches as they demand. . . . Let’s be frank: The notion that the actions of four cops in Minnesota on Memorial Day in any way justifies the continued fracturing of New York City’s social order 10 days later is nonsense on its face. And the willingness of Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to tolerate what has been happening in New York since last Friday — violence is rampant upstate as well — is scandalous beyond words. For the two of them, it’s always been better to do nothing than to alienate an interest group — but effectively accelerating municipal mayhem through studied inaction is something altogether new.”
Between pandemics and unfettered violence, America’s big blue cities are undoing three decades of image rehabilitation in just a few weeks.
IT’S AS IF THESE PEOPLE AREN’T ABOUT CLEANING UP POLITICS AT ALL: End Citizens United Enters Unusual Fundraising Venture With Six Democrats: Liberal super PAC is legally prohibited from coordinating directly with political campaigns.
Twitter is a platform ripe for abuse by its users — and by management.
LET THAT BE YOUR LAST TIK-TOK VIDEO: Teen’s half-‘blackface’ makeup tutorial on TikTok sparks outrage.
The since-deleted clip, which has more than 1.1 million views since it was reposted on Twitter, shows the Austrian teen applying dark-colored makeup to half her face and neck with the two sides separated by a melting pattern. The tone-deaf tutorial is set to “This Is America” by Childish Gambino (a k a Donald Glover).
“This TikTok just ended racism,” tweets Siraj Hashmi of the Washington Examiner to his 54,700 followers. In a separate tweet, he adds: “I’ve seen a lot of performative virtue signaling done on social media in the last few days. This has to be, by far, one of the worst things I’ve seen.”
To boldly go where Frank Gorshin has gone before:
AT AMAZON, Face Mask, Pack of 50.
BIG MAJORITY SUPPORTS USING MILITARY AGAINST RIOTERS: Latest Morning Consult survey finds 58 percent of respondents support using the military to help law enforcement end rioting and looting sparked by Antifa and other anarchist groups in the wake of George Floyd’s horrendous May 25 murder.
JOEL KOTKIN: Class Politics, Covid, and Riots. “Remarkably, these mayors seem to be largely indifferent to the rise of largely white, anarchist groups, like Antifa, who can be seen in videos committing acts of vandalism and violence, even over the objections of African American protestors.”
If you’re actively supporting, or even just passively enabling, the people who are destroying black neighborhoods, businesses, and jobs, aren’t you supporting white supremacy?
BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO: SPLC Slams Trump’s Terror Designation of Antifa as ‘Dangerous and Unjust’ as America Burns.
TRUMP SHOULD MESS WITH THEM BY DENOUNCING ANTIFA AS A WHITE SUPREMACIST ORGANIZATION, THEN DEMAND THAT DEMOCRATS DENOUNCE IT . . . That ‘White Nationalists Causing George Floyd Riot Chaos’ Talking Point Took Another Devastating Blow.
I know, I know: Never cross the streams!
PLAME OUT: “I’ve seen enough. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D) wins the #NM03 primary to succeed Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D), defeating former CIA agent Valerie Plame,” Dave Wasserman of NBC tweets.
Flashback: ‘She Looks Astoundingly Good’ — WashPost Slobbers Over Valerie Plame for Congress, Ignores Anti-Semitism. “Guess what wasn’t in the puff piece? Any mention of Plame’s anti-Semitic tweet controversy. As Post editorialist Molly Roberts wrote in 2017: On the first full day of Rosh Hashanah, unmasked CIA officer Valerie Plame tweeted out an article entitled, ‘America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.’ As if the headline weren’t bad enough, the essay appeared on a website featuring such pieces as ‘It’s time to re-think David Duke.’”
STEVE KING LOSES IOWA REPUBLICAN PRIMARY: “King had publicly endorsed a white nationalist candidate for mayor in Toronto. The candidate, Faith Goldy, has promoted books espousing anti-Semitic ideas and defending the white supremacist ’14 words’ slogan, according to the Toronto Star. He also faced backlash for comments questioning whether humanity would exist anymore if not for rape and incest throughout history.”
Heh, indeed.™
June 2, 2020
ONLY IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS, BLACK BUSINESSES, AND BLACK JOBS: USA Today: Trump Is Right: Get These Riots Under Control.
YOU WENT FULL BANE. NEVER GO FULL BANE: Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, “in a passionate speech on Tuesday, suggested the protests sweeping the nation may yield long-term benefits. ‘Yes, America is burning. But that’s how forests grow,’ she said.”
The fire rises.
JUST THANKED A BUNCH OF Y’ALL WHO DONATED VIA PAYPAL — a bunch of older donation emails appeared in the folder, so I’ve replied to them. Sorry to be late, but it’s all much appreciated.
IF HE CARED ABOUT THIS, HE WOULD HAVE ENDORSED PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS:
But if he cared, he would have done something about it while he was President. But he doesn’t want to fix the problem, he just wants to blame people for it.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Atlantic writer who warned of Georgia’s human sacrifice by reopening says New York’s 8 p.m. curfew is ‘absolutely insane.’
The past week has provided “Definitive Proof of the Lab Origins of COVID Exposed,” as
This virus analyses the motives of its potential victims and can determine who is worthy of being passed over and who should be targeted for destruction. That is why we are still unable to worship together or give our money to small businesses because the virus must have been engineered in such a way to determine that these are not legitimate reasons to gather. The virus knows that it’s admirable to destroy aforementioned churches and small businesses, and when people gather to wreak havoc on these buildings, they should be spared.
That’s some virus.
The bad news: Journalists Forget Their Own Predictions: Millions of Americans to Die.
The potentially bad news: “Under the worst of circumstances, a chunk of the country has decided to embark impromptu on a major scientific experiment. In a few weeks we’ll have a decent idea of just how transmissible the coronavirus is in mass gatherings of mostly young adults taking place outdoors in warming weather. Best-case scenario: Few infections, leading to growing confidence that the virus can be held at bay for the rest of the summer without a true second wave. Worst-case scenario: Second wave with a vengeance.”
Apparently, NPR believes that medical professionals are OK with this:
Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests. “White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19,” they wrote.
The DNC-MSM and local mayors turned on a dime from enforcing hard-line lockdown rules and shaming anyone who went to church or got a haircut, to letting rioters congregate with impunity. As Bill de Blasio was quoted earlier today, “When you see…an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seated in 400 years of American racism, I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services.”
Naturally, if a second coronavirus wave appears, they’ll simply blame Trump.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
UPDATE (From Ed): Speaking of past performance is no guarantee of future results:
(Updated and bumped.)
NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Red Man (Years of Blood Book 2). Continuing his English Civil War series that began with Bold and Blooded.
SACRAMENTO KINGS ANNOUNCER GRANT NAPEAR RESIGNS AFTER TWEETING ‘ALL LIVES MATTER.’
Such a statement implies that Uighur lives matter, and that thought would make the NBA’s commissioner – China’s Xi Jinping – quite cross.
Flashback: Why Is the NBA in Xinjiang?
OPEN THREAD: I judge trees by the fruits, and the deepness of the roots.