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Archive for 2020
December 1, 2020
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Election Fraud Update For December 1, 2020. “As promised, here’s this week’s election fraud update. Lots of hearings, lots of lawsuits, lots of evidence of fraud, and no indication yet that anything is getting overturned.”
BIDEN GETTING THE OLD ANTI-ISRAEL BAND BACK TOGETHER: Jeff Dunetz at The Lid digs into the Israel views of Biden’s foreign policy team and finds it “is as anti-Israel as is much of his track record and the sentiments of the Democratic Party base.”
For example, Reema Dodin, slated to be deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative affairs, for example, “joined with Palestinians and their supporters who used to routinely and openly justify the most heinous terror attacks, blowing up buses and pizza shops, and Passover seders,” Dunetz writes.
Dunetz has more, much more, and, while it doesn’t surprise, it still ought to give pause to anybody who cares about defending and preserving America’s most loyal and dependable ally in the Middle East.
THE SWAMP WILL RISE AGAIN: Joe Biden’s Putting That Old Anti-Israel Band Back Together.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Diabetes, high blood pressure raise odds of COVID-19 harming brain.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Top 20% Gets 6x More Benefits from Student Debt Cancellation than Bottom 20%, New Study Finds.
OH: Facebook’s bots ban thousands of small businesses from advertising at height of retail season.
The genius of the internet is that it created a level playing field where one-man shops could compete toe-to-toe with established players.
The evil genius of social media is that it allows established players to snuff out the one-man shops before they have a chance to compete.
“LIMIT WALMART FIRST” WAS ONE OF THE CHANTS AT KNOXVILLE’S ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTEST: El Paso Mayor Says Recent COVID-19 Spike Due To ‘Fatigue,’ Many Cases Coming From Shopping At Large Retailers.
The mayor also mentioned what contact tracers have been finding in regards to how residents are catching the virus.
“We did a deep dive in our contact tracing for the week of November the 10th through the 16th and found that 55% of the positives were coming from shopping at large retailers, what we’d term as the big box stores,” Margo said. “And those are considered essential under CISA guidelines under homeland security. And we don’t really have- I don’t have any control over any limitations there.”
No word on whether the records show significant spread from bars and restaurants.
I HOPE THEY’RE PREPARED TO BE DISAPPOINTED: 33 Groups Urge Biden to Reject Big Tech Appointments to His Cabinet.
As you prepare for the presidential transition, we write to urge you to reject the influence of these corporations by committing to exclude Big Tech executives, lobbyists, lawyers and consultants from your administration. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft once promised innovation and opportunity, and while they continue to provide many remarkable products, they now represent serious threats to privacy, democracy, innovation, and Americans’ economic well-being. Each of these companies have developed predatory business practices that harvest user data for profit. Over the last few years, we have seen how Facebook and Google irresponsibly wield immense influence over democratic elections, without oversight or accountability.
Well, yes — and now that they’ve used that influence to buy access to the White House, they’re going to get it.
I REMEMBER STEPHEN HAWKING WRITING ABOUT THIS IN THE 1970S, WHICH I DISCOVERED VIA JERRY POURNELLE: Dangerous ‘naked’ black holes could be hiding in the universe. “Ever since we first discovered the existence of black holes, we’ve wondered if it’s possible to form a singularity without the associated event horizon — a so-called ‘naked’ singularity. This would be a very dangerous place indeed, because it would be a location where the laws of physics break down that is fully accessible to the rest of the universe. At least with a traditional black hole, the singularity is safely wrapped beneath an event horizon, so even though it’s a place of extreme and unknown physics, at least whatever happens there is locked away from the rest of the cosmos.”
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Race and ethnicity may be deciding factors in essential workers getting vaccine prioritization.
CHARMING: Europe Sends Its Condolences to Iran. “Ever wonder why so many Americans share President Trump’s skepticism of Europe? Look no further than its reaction to the assassination of the mastermind of Iran’s atomic-bomb project. Moshen Fakhrizadeh was a leader of Iran’s effort to obtain an atomic bomb to use on the country in which the survivors of the Holocaust found redemption. Yet the Europeans rushed out a statement calling the attack a ‘criminal act’.”
TV pundits and reporters may personally be cheering that President Trump appears likely to be booted from office come January, but the transfer of power is bad news for the networks that employ them. CNN and MSNBC saw record-high ratings over the past four years thanks to President Trump, who supplied just the right kind of drama for their wine-sipping audiences.
What will the networks talk about if they’re not melting down over Trump tossing a roll of paper towels during a hurricane relief effort or serving a personally purchased fast-food spread to championship-winning college athletes? Can anything capture the attention of college-educated whites like Rachel Maddow’s bizarre Trump tax return conspiracies or Jake Tapper keeping tally of how many cabinet officials have resigned or been fired (and then interviewing them once they release the requisite Trump-bashing memoir)?
CNN president Jeff Zucker, who recognized Trump’s TV prowess during the 2016 campaign and offered him a weekly show on his network, admitted to Vanity Fair that cable news loses its audience when anchors cut away from constant Trump coverage.
‘We’ve seen that anytime you break away from the Trump story and cover other events in this era, the audience goes away,’ he said in 2018. ‘So we know that, right now, Donald Trump dominates.’
The biggest challenge for cable news, then, is finding something else for viewers to obsess over. The Biden administration can hardly fill the outrage gap — left-wing audiences will angrily tune out if reporters appear to be attacking the former VP.
QED: Andrea Mitchell Cancelled for Questioning the Biden Team’s Transparency.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING: Get It Together, GOP. The Georgia Senate Runoffs Are Not Going To Win Themselves.
UPDATE: Georgia Senate Candidate Warnock Laughs at Concealed Carrying Churchgoers.
(Updated and bumped.)
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: The Struggle Is Real — BLM vs BLM Over Missing Billions.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Since Black Lives Matter, is it possible that some black lives matter more than others?
Answer: It’s a Marxist-run organization, so of course they do.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- “Your vote is not as secure as your Venmo account.”
- The Chinese Communist Party owns the company that owns Dominion Voting Systems (see Item One).
- The real #Resistance is the small businesses and service workers fighting the lockdowns.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
STEVEN MALANGA: Maradona of Naples. The soccer great brought hope and victory to a depressed city, as sports superstars can do.
NASDAQ TO REQUIRE ALL CORPORATE BOARDS TO HAVE ONE WOMAN, ONE MINORITY: As an Arab (well, half, but that’s good enough to count) let me be the first to say I volunteer for your highly paid phoney-baloney job, Mr. Corporate Bigshot! Heck, I’ll do it for half of what you’re paying whatever Biden, Clinton, or Bush you have in there now.
SO OF COURSE THE LEFT WANTS FEWER OF THEM: Beat Cops Cut Crime. A clever study tracking police officers’ movements in Dallas shows that simply walking the beat is one of the most powerful tools available to reduce crime.
WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE RIGHT NOW? Donate to David Perdue’s Georgia Senate Runoff Campaign.
Also Kelly Loeffler’s Georgia Senate Runoff Campaign.
You might also volunteer, if you can spare the time.
UPDATE: From the comments: “So many sockpuppets in this thread telling us to give up and not donate. It’s almost like they have a strategy or something.”
Yeah, I’m seeing that all over. If someone’s telling you this, they’re either a Democrat sockpuppet, a Chinese sockpuppet, or an idiot of the most profound nature.
THE SWAMP WILL RISE AGAIN: The Return of the Old Order.
COLD WAR II: The Trump administration will add SMIC, China’s largest chipmaker, to its defense blacklist. “SMIC, one of largest chip makers in the world, is among several companies that the Department of Defense plans to designate as being owned or controlled by the Chinese military, reports Reuters. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, set to go into effect on January 11, that would bar U.S. investors from buying securities from companies on the defense blacklist.”
Previously: SMIC’s N+1 process node not enough to save Huawei.
Communist China’s best chip technology is behind Western standards (including Taiwan), and Trump aims to keep it that way.