Archive for 2020
November 9, 2020
WHEN “PUBLIC HEALTH” IS JUST A LIE: Crowds get to celebrate Joe Biden’s victory — but no one else can gather in public?
CHECK IT OUT: Artwork from Stacy Tabb, the designer of InstaPundit.
CHANGE: Barr tells DOJ to probe election irregularities. I can’t find a public link yet, but I’m reading the Trump complaint in Pennsylvania.
UPDATE: Try this.
Summary here.
Related: Pennsylvania House Speaker Seeks ‘Full Audit’ of Election Returns Before Certification.
PUSHBACK: ON FIRE: McConnell Will Brook ‘No Lectures’ From Dems Who ‘Spent Four Years’ Rejecting the 2016 Election. Right?
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OPEN THREAD: Do not take counsel of your fears.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Defund the Police.”
The New Hotness? Minneapolis to consider bringing in outside police officers amid shortage.
AT MSNBC? WOULDN’T THAT BE CONSIDERED A PLUS? MSNBC reportedly lets Jon Meacham go as contributor after not disclosing he was a speechwriter for Biden.
DAVID THOMPSON: She Makes Her Own, I Think.
I keep seeing this meme going around that’s like, “I’ll still be your friend if you voted for Trump, I’ll still be your friend if you voted for Biden…” and it’s making me ragey.
So writes Sa’iyda Shabazz in the pages of Scary Mommy, where progressive parents display their piety to each other, and where rage and tears, even feigned or delusional rage and tears, are a currency of sorts, markers of woke status. Part of the game.
If you still support [Trump] after the last four years of his bullshit, then guess what? I don’t want to be your friend. Because if you support that monster, you can’t possibly also care about me.
A monster. Specifically, a “racist, misogynist, xenophobic monster.” I suppose we were destined to start in high gear, something approaching opera. It does seem to be the custom among Scary Mommy contributors. Having dutifully denounced Mr Trump as the Demon King, the cause of all human sorrow, Ms Shabazz then goes on to reveal, albeit inadvertently, the extent to which the wider world should in fact care about her, being as she is so lovely and not at all demented.
I know that I have friends who voted for Trump in 2016. And I know I probably have friends who did this year, too. One of them is one of my oldest and dearest friends. To say that I was horrified is an understatement.
In terms of progressive outpourings, understatement is a rare treat. Let’s take a moment to savour it.
And fisk the daylights out of it. Read the whole thing.
BUT ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME EUROPE WAS HANDLING COVID MUCH BETTER THAN US: Germany’s lockdown is already fraying. In the absence of any clear strategy, politicians have taken to blaming the public for their failings.
As German playwright Bertolt Brecht famously wrote, “Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?”
As a graduate of Karl Marx University(!), on some level Angela Merkel likely views that quote as a how-to guide.
HMMM: Internal Fox News Numbers Reveal Catastrophic Viewership Collapse.
Related: Fox News Cancels Justice With Judge Jeanine This Weekend Over Trump.
For those of you that might have tuned in and did not see Fox News’ “Justice” with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, sources told Newsmax the show was suspended over a spat on the network’s coverage of President Donald Trump.
Sources close to the network tell Newsmax, because she made a very staunch defense of President Trump and wanted to expose the vote fraud that took place in the election, Fox News decided not to air her show. It had extended coverage of Democrat Joe Biden’s acceptance speech of a contested election.
The sources gave no inclination of whether the network is going to keep the show going, but we hear she was suspended at least for this weekend.
I’m not sure what’s in it for Fox News to become just another channel in the CBSCNNABCNBCMSNBC sandwich of approved DNC-MSM “news” programming. Back in 2017, after Megyn Kelly left Fox News for her brief stint at NBC, Ace of Spades wrote:
She thought she would be accepted by the liberals; like Bret Stephens, she’s finding that the liberals only cheered her when she was a saboteur operating behind enemy lines. But they damn sure don’t want Bret Stephens or MeAgain behind their own lines…You know, Benedict Arnold expected to be treated like a hero by the British he gave West Point to. Instead, he lived miserably thereafter, shunned by the people he expected to embrace him. No one ever really trusts a turncoat. Even the people the turncoat turns coat to be amongst.
Fox News seems determined to discover that as well, the hard way, on a near-network level.
Earlier: #FOXEXIT Movement Builds As Network Has Become Anti-Trump.
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Biden’s COVID Task Force Includes Doctor who Wishes Biden Died 2 Years Ago.
FINALLY, A MAN AND HIS MOMENT COME TOGETHER. Shock: Mitt Romney May Join Hypothetical Biden Administration.
TWO DUBYAS IN ONE!
● Shot: George W. Bush: Trump Has Right To Pursue Recounts And Legal Challenges Over Election.
—The Daily Wire, yesterday.
● Chaser: Bush congratulates Biden, says election was ‘fundamentally fair’ and ‘its outcome is clear.’
—CNN, today.
HMMM: Report: Google Sent Liberals, But Not Conservatives, a Vote Reminder. GOP Senators Want to Know Why.
And speaking of Google: “Eric Schmidt, the longtime former CEO of Google, is also on board the [Biden] transition team, and, per FT, ‘is being talked about to lead a new technology industry task force in the White House,’ despite reports the same day that Schmidt and his family have applied for citizenship in Cyprus. That move, per Recode, would allow Schmidt to enjoy tax benefits, and also avoid travel bans related to the European Union.”
I’m so old, I can remember when that sort of thing was considered rather unpatriotic in Biden-land. Flashback: Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act.
But does Biden even remember saying that these days?