THE MEDIA MASK SLIPS: “You seldom get such a forthright admission that the media made the conscious choice to be the adjunct of the Democratic Party. And this isn’t fake news, for a change.”
Archive for 2020
December 1, 2020
FOR A GUY WHO SUPPOSEDLY LOST, TRUMP SURE HAD COATTAILS. FOR A GUY WHO SUPPOSEDLY WON, BIDEN SURE DIDN’T: Christy Smith concedes to Mike Garcia in tight CA-25 race.
‘SHUT UP,’ THEY EXPLAINED: Facebook Quietly Removes Two of the Biggest Remaining ‘Stop the Steal’ Groups.
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS WHO CAN’T HANDLE CRITICISM SHOULD BE FIRED: U Arizona backtracks after punishing student for criticizing school COVID policy.
On September 14, Orsay received an email from the Dean of Students’ office, stating that he had violated the university’s code of conduct for posting “negative views regarding COVID-19 health and safety protocols.” . . .
The email said that such behavior violated the student code of conduct in the areas of “endangering, threatening, or causing harm to any member of the university community.”
No it didn’t, and claiming otherwise should be, as I say, a firing offense.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Whaddyaknow — Enemy of the People CNN Finally Admits China Lied About Bat Flu. “To say that CNN is a little late to the party on this one would be doing things with the word ‘understatement’ that are probably illegal in thirty countries. I know this year seems like it’s been a decade long, but I can still remember way back to last summer, when the bulk of CNN’s ‘reporting’ involved chiding President Trump for repeatedly making the point that the coronavirus not only came from China, but that China was not at all forthcoming regarding the particulars of it. It was ‘racist’ to be honest about what was going on.”
Sometimes the Party requires 2+2=5, and at other times the Party requires 2+2=3.
BELIEVE IN SOMETHING, UNLESS IT UPSETS THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. Report: Nike, Coke, other companies lobbying against bill that would ban goods made with slave labor of Uighurs in Xinjiang.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HEREISTHEEVIDENCE.COM: “Due to the irregularity of this current 2020 Presidential Election, this is a crowdsourcing tool for organizing anomalies and legal issues. Our desire is that more of the election process would be made transparent so there would be unquestionable confidence in our voting systems.”
AFTER A DECADE OF SEEING LEFTISTS DOXXING PEOPLE AND GETTING THEM FIRED FOR EXPRESSING A FORBIDDEN OPINION, I HAVE TO ASK WHAT’S THEIR BEEF WITH JOE MCCARTHY? Liberal Media Scream: In Trump, CNN sees ‘rampages of Joe McCarthy.’
Personally, I’m beginning to wonder if we should have had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for communist sympathizers and adherents after the Cold War ended.
SHOCKER: CNN: The Wuhan files: Leaked documents reveal China’s mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19.
It’s a Chinese virus. It came from China.
Flashback: Time to put China on lockdown for its dishonesty amid coronavirus crisis.
A competent, honest response would have placed the world on notice much earlier. A China that cared about the rest of the world would have halted flights abroad while this disease was spreading, instead of allowing its citizens to spread willy-nilly around the globe. (As Brian Kennedy writes: “China seems to have taken the position that if they were to suffer the coronavirus, so too was the United States and the rest of the world. What else is to explain the continuation of flights from China to the United States at the rate of some 20,000 passengers a day, until President Trump wisely shut them down?”)
Related: Blame the Chinese Communist Party for the coronavirus crisis. “From the moment the coronavirus emerged in central China, Beijing has acted in a way that made a pandemic possible and then inevitable. It covered up what was happening in Wuhan. It silenced whistleblowers who sought to warn the world. It stole medical supplies from other countries, even while claiming the sickness was no big deal. . . . If Beijing had given the real number of infected people and deaths, other countries would have recognized the danger, and taken necessary steps.”
MOSTLY IT’S A SCHEME TO GET TAX DOLLARS INTO THE HANDS OF THE POLITICALLY CORRECT: American High Schools Go Woke.
On the East Coast, the wealthy Fairfax County public school district shelled out $20,000 for an hourlong speech from critical-race commentator Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. At one school in the district, faculty went further, disseminating “anti-racist” reading lists to parents and organizing students into “equity” committees.
Dozens of schools across the country, both public and private, have taken similar steps. The perceived need to announce sweeping changes in leadership and curricula has been a boon to the growing diversity-consulting industry, which is designed to profit from racial discontent.
A list of “anti-racism” resources, compiled just days after the death of George Floyd and featuring such writers as Kendi, Dr. Robin DiAngelo, and the authors of the New York Times‘s controversial 1619 project, was shared widely by colleges and high schools across the country.
Get involved with your local school board.
AFTER FOUR YEARS OF “THE RUSSIANS HACKED THE ELECTION,” WE GET THIS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP’S FORMAL LEGAL CHALLENGES: 1918 Germany Has a Warning for America: Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century.
Say what you will about Hitler, at least he wasn’t constantly comparing his political opponents to Nazis.
Related: The ‘Not My President’ Crowd Needs To Sit Down And Shut Up: The left made the rules. I’m ready to play by them. “For four years, not a few months, the Democrats and their media allies insisted first that Trump’s election was not legitimate and then that he was a Russian asset. It was abject nonsense, a lie. It was a hysterical and long-lasting undermining of our democracy. Now these same clowns, these buffoons, are lecturing us about accepting the results.”
A CURE FOR THE COMMON COVID? A mildly insane idea for disabling the coronavirus.
This system relies on a small protein called “ubiquitin.” When a protein is to be targeted for destruction, enzymes called ubiquitin ligases chemically link a chain of ubiquitins to it. These serve as a tag that is recognized by enzymes that digest any proteins with ubiquitin attached to them.
So, the idea behind the new work is to identify a key viral protein and figure out how to attach ubiquitin to it. The cell would then take care of the rest, digesting the viral protein and thus blocking the production of any useful viruses in that cell. In this case, the researchers decided to target the spike protein that sits on the surface of coronaviruses and allows them to attach to and infect new cells.
Unfortunately, there are no proteins that attach ubiquitin to the viral spike protein. Or, rather, there were no proteins that fit that description.
But a team at Harvard has now produced one.
But: “If you’re not careful, your virus-destroying enzyme will also end up destroying proteins that are essential to the health of uninfected cells.”
JOANNE JACOBS: Gone girls and boys. “District schools want more money to reopen for fewer students.”
ONE FOR THE ROAD: LA County Supervisor dines at restaurant hours after voting to ban outdoor dining.
[Sheila] Kuehl’s visit to [Il Forno Trattoria in Santa Monica] came before the outdoor dining ban took effect Wednesday evening, but her decision is likely to draw criticism from those who have grown frustrated with elected officials taking a hypocritical approach to what they have preached, as Kuehl dined at the restaurant a mere hours after she said doing such a thing was unsafe and could contribute to the surge in COVID-19 cases.
Further north in California: San Jose Mayor Ignored Health Protocols During Holiday Celebration. Mayor Sam Liccardo spent Thanksgiving at his parents’ home, apparently skirting health guidelines that urge the public not to gather with people outside their household.
I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis, to coin an Instaphrase.
REMEMBER YOU’RE AMERICANS. POST A COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE WINDOW AND GO ABOUT YOUR LAWFUL BUSINESS. GOVERNORS AREN’T KINGS, AND (CONTRARY TO WHAT PASTE-EATING-POLIS AND HIS CRUSH NEWSOM BELIEVE) THEIR WORD ISN’T LAW: This Michigan restaurant chain is fighting back. They wrote a letter urging other eateries to join them in defying the state’s dine-in ban.
TRUMP SAVES MORE INDUSTRIES: Applications Surge To Law Schools (+32%) And Medical Schools (+18%).
IN NEW SOVIET REPUBLICK ALL INJURIES WILL BE DEEMED “DOMESTIC VIOLENCE” UNTIL ACQUITTED BY COURT: This arm injury is a red flag for domestic abuse: study.