Archive for 2020
May 10, 2020
SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “When Lockdown ends I predit a national debauch like the one that swept Restoration England.”
BEHOLD THE DISTORTION EFFECT OF THE DNC-MSM: New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom. So why is Andrew Cuomo’s popularity at an all time high?
Evergreen:
Flashback to one of Glenn’s posts from 2011: UCLA Professor: Without Media Bias the Average US State Would Vote Like Texas or Tennessee. The professor is Tim Groseclose, author of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.
FAKE NEWS: Gun-Control Activist Deploys Fake Photo in Attack on Virginia Republican.
Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts shared a fake photograph to attack GOP congressional hopeful Nick Freitas in a now-deleted Thursday tweet.
Freitas, an Army veteran, is running to unseat freshman representative Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.), who is backed by prominent gun-control groups, including Moms Demand Action. Watts, who founded the group in 2012, falsely accused Freitas of promoting a t-shirt that bears the Moms Demand Action logo, but features stick figures engaged in various acts of sexual congress and depravity. The Thursday tweet, which Watts has since deleted, included a fundraising plea in support of Spanberger.
Freitas responded to the attack Thursday, accusing Watts of engaging in “politics of slander” to bolster her candidate.
“Not only is this ‘tweet’ verifiably fake, but she used it to slander my wife,” Freitas said in a tweet. “If they can’t win on issues, they engage in the politics of slander + personal destruction.” He went on to ask Spanberger if she stood behind the “lies your allies @MomsDemand are spreading to raise money for you.” Spanberger has not addressed Watts’s tweet and did not respond to a request for comment.
Moms Demand is Bloomberg-funded astroturf, and Shannon Watts is its fake face. Telling the truth is not in her job description, or in her nature.
A “PRETTY DARN INVESTED” OBAMA RALLIES THE TROOPS AND GIVES THEM THEIR TALKING POINTS:
Obama is a sanctimonious, arrogant, dangerous, viper.
What really is without precedent – at least in the US, although not in certain countries usually referred to as “banana republics – is the way in which Obama used the DOJ and the FBI and the entire state apparatus to spy on and destroy an incoming president of the opposing party. Watergate was a tea party compared to this.
Read the whole thing.
RICHARD FERNANDEZ ON THE ESTABLISHMENT’S NARCISSISTIC WOUND.
Plus, yes:
Related: Trump Didn’t Ruin the Media, Obama Did. “Obama was the first indicator that the media would simply refuse to cover stories they didn’t like about a politician they did. The media covered Clinton’s Chinagate and Travelgate. But they refused to cover the IRS scandal with the same level of vim as they would have under Bush; they downplayed the Obama administration’s involvement in the botched “Fast and Furious” gun operation scandal; and members of the mainstream media openly mocked the right’s anger over the administration’s manipulation of the 2012 Benghazi terror attack. Obama had to be protected at all costs, including the cost of the media’s credibility. Meanwhile, the media savaged 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.”
Flashback: New Status Anxiety Fuels Trump Derangement.
SUDDENLY, THE LEFT TURNS ON SWEDEN: Sweden has taken a relatively permissive approach to confronting COVID-19.
THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT: The Left Is at War With the Little Sisters of the Poor. You may not be interested in the gleichschaltung, but the gleichschaltung is interested in you. But, as always, make it painful and they will stop.
May 9, 2020
MASKS ARE BETTER THAN LOCKDOWNS: Universal mask-wearing would do more to reduce infection than indefinite lockdowns would. This seems plausible to me. I understand people being salty about the experts’ about-face on masks, but it was the initial masks-don’t-work position that was stupid.
HE’S BEEN A VOICE OF SANITY: Jonathan Turley Rips Apart Obama’s ‘Leaked’ Statement About the DOJ and Flynn, and It’s Glorious.
OPEN THREAD: I can hear your words, when you speak of what you are and have seen.
I SURVIVED A 20-MINUTE INTERNET OUTAGE DURING LOCKDOWN: What if it never works again? What if our infrastructure is finally collapsing? What if this is it?
DON SURBER: What Nixon Taught Barack and President Trump.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Arizona: Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent.
WHAT HAPPENED TO DRUDGE? Drudge Report Becomes Sludge Report.
SO WE’VE ALREADY GOT AN EPIDEMIC AND FOOD SHORTAGES, NOW THIS: Frost advisory issued for Knoxville with record low temps possible overnight. Guess I’ll have to cover my tomato plants, although the microclimate from the heated pool will probably protect them. But I don’t want to live in a John Ringo novel. And neither, he assures me, does John Ringo.
BILLIONAIRE KAREN NARCS ON SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS: Mark Cuban’s Secret Shopper Study Finds That 96% of Dallas Businesses Don’t Comply With Reopening Guidelines. The Dallas Mavericks owner hired a research firm to conduct secret shopper studies at hundreds of restaurants and businesses across the city.
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MICHAEL WALSH: Why the dismissal of Michael Flynn’s case could win Trump reelection. It certainly should.
And my “living, breathing Constitution” analysis says Trump should get a third term, to make up for the criminal effort to undermine his first term. After all, the Constitutions is made to change and adapt to the times, and the Framers could never have imagined this unholy alliance between the dregs of the bureaucracy and the media, along with seditious members of Congress.