Archive for 2020
October 28, 2020
I CAN STILL SMELL THE STINK OF CORRUPTION IN BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN, SO I GUESS I’M NOT SICK: Study: Loss of smell in COVID-19 far more common than thought.
JOE BIDEN, ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY: Biden derides video game developer ‘creeps’ who ‘teach you how to kill.’
YES: Twitter’s threats to The Post echo those of authoritarian states — and the media shrugs.
Journalists are not brave firemen running toward a story. For the most part they’re loyal apparatchiks happy to peddle the party line.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Oregon health official announces COVID-19 death toll dressed as clown.
Claire Poche, a senior official of the Oregon Health Authority, made the announcement dressed in a red tie, polka dot shirt, bright yellow pants, and a full face of clown makeup.
A senior Oregon health official donned a clown costume prior to announcing the daily death toll from coronavirus.
Claire Poche, a senior official of the Oregon Health Authority, made the announcement dressed in a red tie, polka dot shirt, bright yellow pants, and a full face of clown makeup.
“As of today, there have been 38,160 cases of COVID-19 in Oregon, with 390 new cases being reported today,” announced the harlequin impersonator. “Sadly, we are also reporting three deaths today, bringing the statewide total for COVID-19-related deaths to 608,” she somberly continued in heavy contrast to her attire.
I wonder if she’ll be tag-teaming with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who wore this outfit to a press conference at the start of the month:
Curiously, Lightfoot’s outfit failed to have the desired effect on at least two of her citizens: Chicago Sisters Accused Of Stabbing Employee 27 Times After Being Asked To Wear A Mask.
One of whom “recorded the incident on her phone,” according to Yahoo News, which should likely make the prosecutor’s job much easier.
THE LAST THING THE LEFT WANTS IS AN AMERICA WHERE EVERYONE GETS ALONG: Massive pro-Trump rally in Beverly Hills brings together black, white, gay, straight Americans – where’s the media?
I’VE BEEN SUGGESTING THIS FOR A WHILE: Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Studies Showing Waning Coronavirus Antibodies. “Experts say it’s normal for levels of antibodies to drop after clearing an infection, and that they represent just one arm of the immune response against a virus. . . . Antibodies also represent only one arm of the immune response, albeit the one that can most easily be measured. There are at least three other branches of the immune system that can fend off illness, so antibody levels don’t present the full picture.”
‘ANONYMOUS’ ANTI-TRUMP AUTHOR OUTS HIMSELF AS FORMER DHS CHIEF OF STAFF. HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW:
The man who penned a 2018 op-ed attacking the administration of President Donald Trump from within, hiding his identity, has revealed himself for the first time.
The man, who also wrote a book, A Warning, under the name “Anonymous,” is former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor.
“Donald Trump is a man without character. It’s why I wrote ‘A Warning’…and it’s why me & my colleagues have spoken out against him (in our own names) for months. It’s time for everyone to step out of the shadows,” he said in a tweet with a link to his statement.
Earlier this year, “Taylor denied being ‘Anonymous,’ and did so on CNN:”
In April, “President Trump’s former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, [denied] new allegations that she is ‘Anonymous’ — the author behind a New York Times op-ed and later a book detailing a resistance movement against President Trump within his own administration.”
Today, Taylor is weaseling out of an apology to her:
The “too” in the above tweet is a nice touch:
ROGER SIMON: Why Hunter Biden Really Does Matter … Big Time.
Okay, just more gossip about a, shall we say, “prodigal son,” maybe one who has ambivalent feelings about his father and is “acting out.” What does that have to do with the father?
A lot.
Besides telling us that the man who would be president is/was an atrocious parent, if the product of his parenting is even ten percent nurture on the nature versus nurture scale, the father is heavily enmeshed with the son in countries that wish to harm us.
This doesn’t just seemingly explain Joe Biden’s brain dead comment about Communist China—“China is going to eat our lunch. Come on, man. They’re not bad folks, folks”—it bespeaks a kind of clueless greed and primitive lust for power in his personality so strong it overwhelms the ability to see the most odious behaviors imaginable.
It’s no surprise Joe Biden has had little or nothing to say about the extraordinary depredations (concentration camps, torture, organ transplants and so on) of the CCP regarding Uyghurs, Falun Gong, or virtually anyone who questions their totalitarian regime.
Nor has he offered any significant condemnation, not that I have seen anyway, of the People’s Republic’s illegal takeover of Hong Kong.
Against all this, his son, as many have now watched on video, allowed himself to be in the most compromising positions in China. What’s interesting about one of these videos—not going to link it here, but it’s easy to find—is that it appears to have been taken by a hidden, fixed camera, of an unknown origin.
This is made clear by Hunter himself when, illuminated by what appears to be a crack pipe, he takes out a cellphone and begins to make his own video of his activities with the young lady. Why would he need two such videos? …
I have been in China, the Soviet Union (twice), Russian Republic (twice) and Cuba. In every one of those occasions, except my most recent very short visit to St. Petersburg, and even then I’m not certain, I was constantly in the company of interpreters or guides who were obviously intelligence agents. Or if not exactly in their company, not far from them. They knew where I was.
This is true of everyone who visits those countries. It’s the way they are. Surely Hunter Biden knew this, but, from his actions, didn’t much care or thought he was under some kind of protection. No one could touch him.
The mystery of the source of that possible protection is what fascinated me when thinking about the revelations of Mr. Bobulinski, about the identity of the “Big Guy” in the email almost all of us have now seen.
So Ted [Cruz], no matter whether this moves a vote or not, if you care about the USA, Hunter really matters—to all of our futures.
The DNC-MSM sure are acting like it matters: Media Titans Subvert Reality About Biden/Ukraine Profiteering.
OR LONGER: Ammo Shortage May Last Until 2021.
WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THERE ISN’T: Twitter, Facebook Confess There Is No Evidence Of Russian Disinformation Behind Hunter Biden Story. Looking at the pictures, I can’t help but feel that these aren’t the people who should be controlling our national conversation.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 4 Great Shotgun Hacks That Actually Work.
THE THISTLE IS SHOWING ITS THORNS: “Soft Totalitarianism Threatens Scotland.”
TODAY AT 3:30PM EASTERN: VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Kruiser, and Preston.
Cold drinks, hot takes.
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENED: Project Veritas Uncovers Texas Ballot Fraud.
PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY DON’T NEED THEM: Asymptomatic Cases of Coronavirus Seem to Lose Antibodies Sooner, Study Finds. I think we’ll find that T-cell immunity is what usually does the job, and people with asymptomatic cases clear the infection faster and hence don’t develop a strong antibody response. But given that T-cells have a long “memory,” that doesn’t mean less immunity.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Will a Biden Victory Crush Late Night TV?
THIS IS HUGE: SpaceX launches public beta test of Starlink Internet service. With connectivity anywhere, it’ll be even easier for people to move from dense urban areas out to the country.
YOU CAN TAKE THE GIRL OUT OF EAST GERMANY, BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE THE EAST GERMANY OUT OF THE GIRL. Angela Merkel’s executive power-grab: Critics believe Merkel and her cabinet have effectively neutralized Germany’s national parliament.
(Classical reference in headline.)
WARGAMING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE: Can BIDEN Thread the Needle to 270? (Yes, Biden).
This was a fun one to put together, with tons of Electoral College maps for your to enjoy and/or argue about.