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VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: What If They Held a Biden Inaugural and Nobody But Trump Fans Came?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s a perfectly radical Portland City Council member supposed to do after a busy day of defunding and demoralizing her local police?

Answer: Call them up to settle a petty dispute with her Lyft driver, of course.

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

  • Nancy Pelosi won’t denounce socialism, probably because she doesn’t want to be the first with her back up against the wall.
  • Team Biden worries Republicans might outnumber Democrats at their guy’s (hypothetical) inauguration.
  • AOC introduces the Bolshevik media guide for a “peaceful” transition.

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

PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD MAKE THESE AN ANNUAL EVENT: Taiwan Announces Military Exercises With U.S. Marines. “Amphibious joint exercises between U.S. Marine Raiders and the Taiwanese Marine Corps began in Taiwan this week and were described as ‘routine’ by Taiwan’s Naval Command, the first admission of direct Taiwanese-American military cooperation since 1979, according to Newsweek. Taiwanese soldiers will receive a month of amphibious training under the U.S. Marines.”

QUESTION ASKED: Are YouTube music reaction videos a rejection of identity politics?

Personally, I think what these black content creators are doing speaks to the fundamental idea that people are individuals first and not racial or cultural identities. That idea has fallen very much out of fashion with people on the woke left who have embraced a kind of identity politics which says almost the opposite, i.e. racial and cultural identity are primary. But what’s happening on YouTube shows the opposite idea is still out there in the broader culture, shaping things and bring people together in spite of their superficial differences.

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: “Could we maybe just accept that identity politics isn’t an effective political strategy? And could Democrats just stop with it, like now?”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Weakened Pelosi May Not Survive as Speaker In 2021. “House Democrats may want a change simply because its upper echelon is getting a little long in the tooth. Pelosi is 80, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is 81, and House Majority Whip James Clyburn is 80. There might be some energetic septuagenarian whippersnappers over there ready to take their places.”

“Party of youth.”

FOR A GUY WHO’S ALLEGEDLY LOSING, TRUMP SEEMS TO HAVE A LOT OF COATTAILS: Republicans flip another House seat (how many will the GOP gain?) “Steel was born in South Korea but came to the U.S. as a child. She has a business degree from Pepperdine and an MBA from USC. Today, she becomes one of only two Korean-American women to serve in Congress. In a video thanking supporters published today she said that ‘conservative ideas transcend gender, race, religion or nationality.’ There’s an idea that should give the Democratic party chills.”

Oh, it does.